General Discussion

Jobs that have left are not coming back. For instance, coal is not, nor should it, come back. If populism is "support for the concerns of ordinary people" (the first definition I see upon Googling the term), then Trumpian populism is nothing more than "support for the bigotries of white folks." Because he sure as hell isn't, nor was he ever going to, offer support in terms of closing the wage gap, labor union advocacy, combating climate change (or even acknowledge it), pushing for a universal basic income in the face of unstoppable automation and globalization, combating institutional racism and sexism, reparations, criminal justice reform such as ending the so-called "War on Drugs," etc., etc., etc.

Just because the lazy and pitiful media and Trump's campaign (and maybe Trump himself, though I don't recall) used the term "populist" to describe that narcissistic bigot, that doesn't make it so.